Dan Riskin

Probably brings the maggots with her.

That wasn't in the study.

But they believe her, whatever it is.

And they do surgery and they look in her nose and they pull out 10 maggots.

larvae of different ages.

And they're like, those look like the kinds of butterflies that live in a sheep's nose.

Is it, are those sheep ones?

And so they look at them and they, they actually collected some DNA from them and ran the DNA.

And sure enough, it is the one that goes in sheep.

Now,

What this thing normally does is it goes, the fly lays eggs up in the nose of a sheep.

The poor sheep has no tissues or anything.

So the sheep just gets these eggs there and then they turn into maggots and they go into the flesh and they eat the flesh.

And then when they get to a certain age, after a couple of molts, they drop out of the nose like a booger.

They land on the ground and they go down into the ground, they molt, they turn into an adult fly and they go off and do their thing.

And that's how they reproduce.

It's a bot fly.

And there are lots of different kinds of bot flies in the world, but this is the sheep one.

Now, they don't go in humans.

Like if one tries to lay eggs in your nose, nothing happens.